PAE | UNEAL HELADORSIPS AND CONSTNED OPTIMA Solving this fr y, we have the desired equation y = 200 = 15x ~ 150 y= LS +50. “The total cost of making 250 units is then y = 1.5(250) + 50 = $425, ‘Exercise. A publisher asks a printer for quotations on the cost of printing 1,000 and 7,000 copies of a book. The printer quotes $4,500 for 1,000 copies and $7,500 for 2,000 copies. Assume that cost, y is linearly related to x, the number of books printed. a) Write the coordinates of the given points. b) Write the equation ofthe line. ¢) What is the cost of printing 2,500 copies? ‘ast: (1,00, 45005; 2,00, 7 500). by = 34 + 1,500. ©) $9,000, TTHORIZONTAL When the equation of line is 10 be determined from two given points, it is’ good ‘AND VERTICAL idea to first compare corresponding coordinates. The reason is that if the y values |UNES aré the sage, the line is horizontal, but if the x values are the same, the line is vertical. For example, given the points i 0,6 and 0,6) ‘ we see thatthe line uhrough them is horizontal because both yécoordinates are 6. This line is shown in Figure 1-6. It is clear that y is 6 at every point on ths ine imespective of the value assigned to the x-coordinate, and because y=6 ‘escribes this line, and this line only, we say y = 6 is the equation for te line di If we had nt noticed the quality of the y-coordinates of (3, 6)-and (8, 6) and had proceeded with the slope-intercept determination ofthe equation by fs finds, 6-60 s-3 then using the pointslope form to get J-6=Or~3) y-6=0, ‘we would have obtained y=6